I was looking for a mini-notebook the other day for my mom-in-law at a Best Buy when I happened to hear a senior sales guy telling a newbie the 411 on selling PCs. "You sell them either Vista, or, if you have to, point them to the Macs because those computers work. That XP stuff is old junk and Linux doesn't work."

Quick and dirty “hack” of sorts. Ubuntu makes good use of your systems internal speaker, but this can become an annoyance.

Perhaps it's a result of the massive outsourcing of programmer skills? Or maybe it's a response to ridiculous resumes where recent college graduates tout twenty years of collective experience.

This week, we're picking on the employees instead of the employers :)

Symbian throws in some old misconceptions to discredit the GPL, so we explore possible motives

Okay,okay ... i know the headline is a little bit provoking. But when you think about some comments from Linux proponents you could think so.

It shouldn’t be too much of a stretch to assume that a good portion of those whom read this blog are Linux users, and so are involved to varying degrees in what is commonly called the ‘Linux Community’.

"...The most obvious example is to compare the modern convention of multi-document tab-switching to the buffer-switching mechanisms you see in Emacs. Once you start opening a significant number of tabs, the number of documents you can open and see at the same time is limited by the width of your screen. For Firefox on this machine, the number is twelve[1] when it's running full-screen.